HOW TO CHANT TO REALISE OUR PRAYERS
🍁It is important that our prayers be specific and concrete. Being vague and unfocussed when you chant is like shooting an arrow without looking at the target. When you chant, it should be with a strong and passionate resolve to make your prayer a reality. To have an attitude “If I chant, everything will be all right” is just wishful thinking. Earnest prayer – prayer infused with one’s whole heart and being – cannot fail to be communicated to the Gohonzon. (DOY2, 138)
🍁Therefore, we mustn’t try to gauge the power of Daimoku with our own limited state of life, thinking, “This must be all there is”. The sutra says that the benefit of Daimoku is beyond even the Buddha to fathom. For us to suppose that we understand its full scope is arrogance. If we underestimate the infinite power of benefit of the Gohonzon owing to weak faith, then we can only tap a minute portion of the Gohonzon power.
(WOLS 6 / Page 138)
Daisaku Ikeda
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This really open up the way I do my prayers very nice now I know the changes I have to do
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